The Sun. — London, England, 1826-08-22 00:00:00

IRELAND. (Prom the Dublin Patriot.) Durranss.—We are glad in the present distressed state of our working classes, to find but one sentiment prevailing—that of en deavouring to devise the most efficient means of remedying the distress. Such .co-operation will, we are persuaded, do much .good; and in furthering the cause of the suffering operatives, not the least benefit that results, is, that development of Christian .benevolence which the humane and the good of all religious de nominations, alike profess and practise. The distress, however, and we much regret it, appears to he of no transient or ordinary character. The public are now convinced that their, attention should be directed, as well to the prevention of future, as to the relief of present distress—that some mode of employment, and we all along agreed with Lord Cluncurry, re muuerative, should be devised. That benevolent and patriotic Nobleman proposed, at the first Meeting on the subject, that the capital raised by charitable contributions, should be employed in such A manner as to be reproductive. We do not mean in these observations to impute any blame to the Relief Committee, whose humanity and public spirit are entitled to, and obtain universal approbation. We believe the exigencies of the moment were too pressing to admit of much deliberation. We think we could confer no small benefit on the labouring classes themselves as well as on the gentlemen who endeavour to find out some permanent mode of employment for the poor, by directing their attention to a tract some time since published by Dr. Whitley Stokes. It is entitled, " Population and Resources of Ireland ;" and we take this opportunity of saying, we do not know which to praise mast, the humanity or the learning of its author. It abounds in judicious and practical views of what could be dune to the improvement of the operative classes in this country. That it has nut, in this age of puffing, made the noise which the productions of the English and Scotch Press make, is owing, per " hapa, to the unobtrusive character of its author, perhaps also to the apathy of the parties most interested, We cannot, how ever, recommend its perusal too strongly. The present is a time when every individual who interests himself in the condition of our patient poor should come to the task furnished. with as much infm.mation as can be procured. Sour Snors.—lt is said to be iu agitation to establish. Soup- Shops contiguous to the hospitals, that the patients, when dis charged, may thence obtain sustenance, until they recover strength and are enabled to get into employment. • • KILKENNY, AUG. this city, we regret to say, there is no diminution .of the distress to which we have so often advert ed, and sickness is fatally on the increase among the pour. The prices of the common necessaries of life are enormous, and it is almost miraculous that the unemployed operatives can contrive to prglong existence. Yesterday potatoes were 101. (by our mar ket return they were at one time 14d. but our argument is founded on the very lowest price of the day,) per single stone in our market, and a very scanty supply. We again entreat the upper and.middling classes to abstain, for a time, from that obeli lent. By doing this, even without a sacrifice, they will greatly relieve the needy. Bread is at present, much cheaper and more wholesome than potatoes. The more general use of bread would greatly reduce the price of potatoes to such of the poor as rear pigs, and therefore, cannot dispense with them.—Leinster Jour- Nal. ConekA no. 18.—Our accounts from the country are of a moat alarming description as to the crops; and we very much fear that that of paramount importance in Ireland, namely, the potatoe, will, for the most part, be a failure. Since our last we have nut had a very copious fall of rain. There have been intermitting showers, however, which, now that the ground his been prepared for the readier reception of moisture by the rains of Monday and Tuesday, must have a favourable effect on vegetation. We have reason to know, that the change of weather has not been confined to this county, in almost every qtua ter of which We also learn there has been vary heavy rain during the early part of the present week. Serious fears are entertained respecting the safety of the woods on the °unity mountains, of which several parts are on fire, and a large quantity of the turf has been constimed-:---a sad disaster, considering the advanced period of the season and the near approach of winter. We are concerned to state that several ricks of turf were acci dentally burnt, on Sunday last, on Ballymnre bog. Fortunately the people of the pariah lied arrived at the ehapel some time after the accident occurred ; an immense number of whom imme diately gave their avoidance, and before , twelve o'clock in the night, succeeded in extinguishing 'the fire-not, however, till neatly our hundred pounds worth of the turf had been destroyed. Casmow, Ann. 11.—Tits: Wes:tura —.Caars.—We had, on 21iond,:ty night and the greater part or Tuesday, a considerable quantity of rain, whirdi must he of use to the potatoe fields and eftersgrass. The rain was accompanied with touch wind, which continued yesterday, and the heat of the weather is greatly dimi nished: Much oldie corn has been safely got in , and stacked, but from what we have seen and beard, it• cannot be thought, with the exciptiou of wheat, even an average produce on the best lands. Old oats are considered cheap at lbs. British ; the new sell at His, to 19s. A dearth of oatmeal must, of course, en sue, and unless relieved by a supply of potatoes, the poor, parti cularly those who are not fully employed, must be greatly die trisect. We know two fathers of families, consisting moreover of sixteen individuals together, who receive as daily wages but (there are toasty suc".l near us), while the stone of potatoes comes to the famine price of a shilling. Now a stone of potatoes is to each family of eight, or even of five, but a mouthful, and how, with hilt one labourer for them; they can be able to pass on to sping, we are at a loss to discover. From the continued drought and extreme heat of the season, together With the uncommen privations incident to the condition of the lowdiclasses of 'our townsfolk, through the dearth of pro vicious and want of employment, famine has found its way into the cabins and garrets an all directions of this town and its suburbs, and has brought with it a distemper, which has begun to rage and commit ravage amongst the silent, starving papule lion. Hundreds of these are no More than animated skeletons, wrapped in rags. • There was a great assemblage of Rihhonmen (upwards of 600, we understand) at Domaine fair on Saturday, who met, the half of them armed with guns, to destroy soy Orangemen who might show themselves there. The magistrates succeeded in dispersing them, after they had fired on the ?Ake, as we have been informed. We are not in possession of panellists to enter more fully into the businets at present.—,Derry Journal. As we were putting to press, we received intelligence of a most alarming Outrage, committed by upwards of tt)t) persons, all armed with fire4rtus, on the lend% of Croghen-hill. The parti culars shall appear. in our next.-- Westmeath Journal. CH EA P REPAnts,-At a parish not one hundred miles from Brighton, a bill was lately sent in by a tradesman to one of the Vublic bodies of the said parish, of which the following is a literal 0 cop £ y:— Mending the wheel-barrow New side to the barrow 'New staves, new splicing the horns and legs, putting on iron-work, and painting the barrow... Two new crois.legs, and new boarding the bum* all 0 4 0 .6 0 13 6 0 6 0 over New mins aide to the berrow . New *beet to the barrow 'lk' putting in all the iron-work to the barrow, new melts, and painting the iron-work to the harrow 0 2 6 Coudgings, two spikes so othafts, two dips to legs, and 60 nail* to the barrow 0 3 10 New hoop-tire to the wheels of the barrow .. .. . 0 6 0 Brighton Goutte. XI 14► 4 [This its tits ilightsatioian's gun all to *cu..; B R ussitt.s, Aug. 18.---The enthusiasm for ti Greek cause, which tonne of the i n h a bit an t s h ere h a d has enfirely subsided It embraced with much ardour, proton., of Lord Cothran; for see ms, that since the de the Archipelago, they think they have done enoual and that Lord Cochrane may do the test. There are no more subscriptions, concerts, or bale, in favour of the Greeks. N o twithstanding this apparent a p at h y , the news which the English papers gave on the 12th instant, concerning the detention of the steam-boats fitted out in aid of the Greeks, produced a great Wt. SatiOrt here, as it was looked upon as a bad omen of the manner in which the squadron of Lord Cochrane will be treated by the Enghelt ships of war in the Le vant. We are to have here a new political , jourind, the title of which will be Le Publieiste. his to lip ip conducted by Frenchmen , one of whom is, gs said, an ex-writer in .the Courier Francais at Paris ; so that it is eaSy to anticipate what will be the tone of this new paper. The accounts of the harvest are in general favourable ; the corn that has been gathered is of a superior quality. CORONER'S INQUEST. DEEADMT. CASE. Yesterday evening, an inquisition was taken in the Board-room of . St. Thomas's Hospital, before THOMAS SHELTON, Esq., on the body of a young man who was found dying on a dunghill' at the back of the Queen's Head Inn yard, on Thursday night last. Mrs. Ann Wharton sworn :—I reside in Queen-street, at the back of the Queen's Head. On Thursday evening last, I observed the deceased enquiring of a neighbour where he could procure a lodging; 1w appeared in ex treme wretchedness, his person scarcely being covered with a rag, and his body dreadfully lacerated. I after. wards saw him turn out of the street; about 11 o'clock the same night, I heard a dreadful groaning, and opening the back window, I saw the deceased lying on a dunghill ,inst inside the Queen's Head Yard; two or three persona were around him, and took him away in a wheelbarrow. Coroner—When you first saw the deceased, did he appear ill? Witness—Yes, Sir, he seemed starving. Juror—Did you see him ask for charity ? Witness.--I did not. _ _ John Moody was next examined.--I am porter to Mr. Corday; proprietor of the Queen's Head ; on Thursday night last, about 11 ' o'clock, I went round my master's yard, when I found the deceased on a dunghill ; he was quite insensible, and appeared to bedying ; he was nearly in a state of nudity, and groaned heavily ; I procured s wheelbarrow, in which I placed some straw, and drove him to the watchhouse, whenlVlr. Wilkinson, the night constable, advised him to be brought here, which accordingly did. CORONER.--From the time you first discovered the de ceased, till he reached the hospital, did be speak ? Witness.—He did not, Sir: Juror.—Had you seen the wretched man before ? Witness.—Never, to my . knowledge. CORONER.—Do you know how long the poor fellow was on the dunghill ? o Witness.. Mr. Henry Whitfield, apothecary to the Hospital, sworn.--I attended the deceased ;he was perfectly insen sible, from his frame being paralysed; I (lid not think it advisable to bleed him ;. I ordered him to bed, and gave him medicine and other restoratives ; very early the next morning I visited him, and found him nearly in the same state ; he died on Friday afternoon; his body was opened after death ; the stomach was without food, and a quan tity. of water was on the brain; I cannot say exactly what caused his death ; it might have been apoplexy, or a want of , that sustenance which nature. requires. The Jury expressed their horror at the manner of the unhappy man's death, and regretted they had not evidence to prove.who he was, and where he had come from. Verdict—" Died by the visitation of God, for want of proper sustenance." LORD COCHRANE'S STEAM VESSELS. The two steam vessels, the .Enterprise and the Irre sistible, in which officers of the Customs have been placed, are now lying within the tiers above Deptford Creek ; a situation which has evidently been selected for the pur pose of avoiding observation. On approaching them they give the spectator an impression that they are of foreign build, being totally unlike any of the steam-vessels- hi therto constructed, Their sharp angular appearance ii one of their greatest peculiarities, especially as the stern nearly resembles the bow; the former differs only in its more shark-like appearance, and it is said that the sharp point of the bow is intended for forcing its way, if neces sary,. into the sides of an enemy's ship on an occasion of close quarter. They lie low in the water, and are thus calculated to come suddenly and almost unobserved on the enemy. The burthen being only one hundred and twenty tons, they of course appear much smaller than could be expected from the nature of the service for which they are destined; but their smallness renders them tit for run ning in and out of creeks, and getting into shallow water, where they can throw with impunity shells into the sea coast towns of the enemy. The draught of water is'only nine feet, and when the guns are in it will be only ten feet. Both vessels are calculated to carry from 14 to 16 68- pounders, and probably two or three mortars; for in each vessel there is a shell-room, and the extraordinary strength and size of the timbers, seem to justify the belief that they Neill be much employed in bombardment. The ves sels are about 1.50 feet in length; and 2.5 in width in the beam. Each vessel has, two .50-horse power steam engines, and it is supposed that the rate at which they will travel will equal that of the 'largest steam-ve►sels.--- Tltete are three small-sized masts for sailing, but the re liance seems to.be placed almost exclusively upon their. steam-power. Each vessel will carry from 60 to 60 hands, the aceom modation for whom appears to be of a very limited de scription. The officers have very small cabins, and that intended for the Admiral on board the Enterprizels much smaller than the Captain's cabin in many merchant ves sels. Every thing seems to have been sacrificed to the warlike and, important object for which these vessels were built; but as in ; warm climates it is usual for the crew to sleep on deck under an awning, the want of accommoda tion below will 'be less sensibly felt.—The paddle-boxes are of a very peculiar construction. The starboard paddle box contains a dressing-room and bath for the captain, and the larboard paddle-box is conveniently fitted up as a cook's galley, or kitchen. Taken altogether, the appear ance of these Vessels gives the idea that they are likely to prove the most formidable engines of warfare which even the ingenuity of modern times has constructed. Fin .---Last night between ten and eleven o'clock a fire broke out at a house in Cree.court, Banner-street, Si. Luke*. No person was in the house at the time but a young man. a lodger, who had retired to rest sometime before. By prompt exertione . the injury was confined to the apartment where it corn• menced. • Yesterday afternoon a fine lad, apparently about ten years of age, was endeavouring to get from behind a hackney coach, on witich c he had been rding down Holborn, when he slipped and fell into the road, and before le could recover himself was trampled on by the horse of a small spring cart, immediately follow ing the coach, and very materially injured. lie was taken into a dot:torts shop e on Holborn-hill, and from thence to Bartholomew's Hospital. • CORONER'S INQUEST. —Yesterday evening an In quest Was held at the Three Kings, Clerkenwell-clOse, on the body of Thomas Merrell, seven years of age, who fell from the wall which surrounds that part of the New River near Goswell-street, and was unfortunately drowned. Verdict—Accidental Death. in answer tu,ll question whether there was any reward allowed in such a case to the person who endeavoured to nave the child, the Coroner said, he was sorry to tell them that on a former application to the Royal Humane Society, the answer received was, that their funds were exhausted. ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT .SAIL COACH ROB BIRY.—Betwee4) eight and nine o'clock, on Saturday night, as one of the northern mail-coaches was procee din g along the road, near Highgate, an attempt waa made t, rub it, by . a footpad, who contrived to force the lock off the back boot, ilinnediately under the seat appropriated to the guard, who frPrn the robber keeping close to the coach, did not perceive him ; he was just in the habit of taking out * yeluable parcel, when the alarm was given by a labouring man, accidentally passing at the instant; the aux;tl tut being apprised of the circumstance called to the coach t i n" to P 4). up, and the foot-pad immediately abandoped hie taut and made off across the fields in the direction of Hampstead. It wet ascertained that the hoot had been opened by means of a yid,- I.'4' key, an instrument which has hltterly been brought to the i ne °ltut .n t w t t itt o r: t t i l l ' t rr i fet:tion. The coach procceded to its d"ti , x t ,,, . . interr upt i on. L 4 vl i e: t itic f e e alwr: T;s 4lP l A .rtil P :u fl i t e th ri a t l Yit '; i m id te'l.. th T° e filß g ß ood :ll2 7 4 eo u ts xAt ti w f *l l l ii °.c e lih ) r iE u : v t •e gives el4sBheeall:l ~,,,,,,,,: o ~ , , , uv it iee r. , : :::::7 ,,7,l , , , i ; , :n o w t t, p t ,p ers rm to us the to° 4 rewrksble. i i north " cut '''''''elnia a Chart of Europe • th e countries of ; to something else, hastened shall anon be in France." i s tamping with his f00t,4 , L ive the yo4laugidp,tihienegee7w4hpoliwerassai!li;ep"dWinge ,at hearing the word France, and said, France to me that is in b u siness ; 1 alone unOlit tv draw Franta,",....4o'u ty • ' • • y PRICES OF STOCKS TIII Bank Stock 5051,04 /3 per Cent. Red. 3 per)6 Cent. Cons. l'ers 3 per IMO R ed nt. 864,i, 4 4 per Cent, New 944 Ditto, 1826 Bank Long Ann. l9 5-16 India Stock ' - Ditto,Bonds 25 24 pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN Fl Austrian Bonds,'s per cent. — Brazing' Bonds Buenos.Ayres Bonds — Chi Han Bonds, IS per ct' 39% Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824 34ti s t Danish, 3 per cent. Greek Bonds Ditto, 1825 Guatimala Mexican Bonds Do. 1825 45 %%4 6 414 PRICES OF SHARE. Anglo Mexican Mining Company, Brazilian Mining Company, British Iron Mining Company General Mining Association Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Assoi Protector Fire Insurance Compani General Steam Navigation Compai Provincial Bank of Ireland DAY AT Obit O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2d. 17 IS pin. Ditto 4OO ed....... 17 18 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for Account 78%% PRICE OF IRISH Bank Stock -- Gov. Stock, 3% per cent. 84% Ditto, New --- 4 per Cent. New 9 82 S Gov. Deb. 3% per cent Consols, 3 per cent 77% i i i Royal Canal Stock -- Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent. -- Ballast Officb Deb. 4 per cent. Arrived, Due, I — Difblin 1 Waterford 0 O Donaghadee ... 1 Guernsey & Jersey 0 O Lisbon • 1 O Gottenburgh 1 1 Hambitrgh U O Holland 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON' BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning l3 minute,' after 5.• 1 Evening 31 minutes after 5. br un. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1826• The Paris Papers of Saturday and the Etoile dated Sunday reached us last tight. They contain no news. The Etoile is full of disCussions respecting the Jesuits, and it appears that the Cour Royale has declared itself incompetent to proceed on the question of the denun ciation of Count MONTLOSIER. The Journal des Debats construes the meeting of M. de TATESCHEFF, M. de CARAMAN, and M. de BERNSTOFF, at Prince METTERNICH'Si at Johannis,, berg, as a Political Congress, held for the discussion of the affairs of Greece or Portugal. There is nothing fresh in these papers from Madrid or Lisbon. An article taken from the Augsburg Gazette mentions a report at Ancona, that Lord COCHRANE had completely succeeded in his first attack on the Egyptian fleet at .Navarin : but, with this exception, and a paragraph in the Etoile, men tioning the arrival of the Egyptian fleet 'at Alexandria on the 6th of June for the purpose of .refitting and. victualling, the affairs of the East are not mentioned. The following is the article above alluded to, from the Journal `des Debuts. The price of the Funds on Saturday were given in our paper yesterday :-- We have repeatedly *aid that the object of the journey of M. de Metternich to Athannisherg i► to hold a Con gress there. We have been treated as visionarie4-116 bold falsifiers; and yet mark the news from Frankfort of the 14th Julyl M. _de Tatescheff, Envoy Extraordinary and Mini= ster Plenipotentiary from Russia to the • Court of Austria, arrived yesterday at Frankfort. His Excellency is on his road to Johannisberg. The Marquis de Cara man, the Count de Bernstorfi, who is still at Ems, and several other distinguished persons, are also expected there. Is not this a Continental Congress? The Duke de San Carlos ' forced in so singular a way to quit St. Peters burgh, will have time to arrive there. Nothing is want ing but a Turkish Envoy ; but the Sublime Porte may rest assured, that at Johannisberg it will find more than one Diplomatist anxious to represent and to defend its interests. What is- the object of this assemblage ? The ' rebels of the Mores,' or the ' Constitutionalists of Lisbon,' or some new conspiracy among the students ? We rest con tent in our ignorance of its object ; it is of no great im portance, indeed, to know it ; the world wagsits way in spite of Congresses. One thing we do know, namely, that the Diplomatists of the Continent, after proclaiming the grand principle of Legitimacy, have been backward to recognise it in its true acceptation—in that sense, at once monarchical and national, m which we have so often ex plained it. In the absence of the Prime Mover, the Diplomatists have assembled, in order to encourage each other, but not one Of them will dare to pronounce the grand advice,' Recog nise . the legitimate rights of the people, and of humanity I' We received last evening by the Steam Boat, Hai burgh Papers, to the 19th instant, and private letters of that date. Neither contain any political news of import:ace. The extraordinary heat which has pre vailed in most parts of Europe, has produced fevers of a dangerous character in many places in the North. The mortality at Copenhagen, Jever, and other towns,. is described as having been very great. In the vicinity of Elsinore, a turf moor has taken fire, and the inhabitants •went psing great exertions to stop the progress of the fire by digging trenches. From Stockholm, it is announced that there is not to be a Swedish and Norwegian Consul at Malta, but the district of the Consul at Gibraltar is to include Malta. • The Swedish Government has again failed in its at tempt to sell by auction 'two frigates. 'No bidders ap peared. The. Duke of CAMBRIDGE presided at a Chapter of the Hanoverian Order, held on the 12th at Her renhausen ; and it is announced from Hanover, that the ships of that . Kingdom are henceforth to pay i n the pats of th e N ether l an d s t h e sam e tonnage, pilot age; a nd li g h t -h ouse dues, as s hi ps o f t h e N etherlands. Hanover .was lighted. with Gas for the fir s t t i me, on the evenin of th e 12 t h, t h e l3trth t l a y its Sove reign. It" g is gratifyin g to see the practical b ene fi ts O f ILLlglisil genius thus spreading themselves over the world. RxrifAtioics ON LONDON. Av u , 4.-7 4 ? Motit,ht 37. 1. Prrlticgtiltao, 7-32. BFRLIN, App 1 5.—Three mouths, '7-Be. ti CHRISTIANIA, A. 6,--Three monitor, 6 Sp. Do c 20 Se' months, 10. H, 7 The following extract* of a letter from a Correopon? dent at Rio de Janeiro, though containing few, facts which have not before appeared? may be of some ante- rest, as coming from an intelligent gentleman actually on the spot : • " Since my last we have nothing new hers. The Thetis, Sir John Phillimore, arrived on the SOth, with Lord and Lady Pon sonby, on their way to Buenos Ayres; they take up their quarters in Sir Charles Stuart's old house, and remain ten or twelve days. The Chambers go on well, and appear firm and earnest in the formation of laws and redress of grievances, without being fac tious. The war goes on in the Plata, but without an incident except a fresh surprize on the part of Commodore Brown, who attacked, with his small ship and a brig, the Imperial frigate /m -peratrice, anchored close in to Monte Video, and killed her cap tain and six men, and wounded nine, but the Netherhoy came out of harbour, and Brown was obliged to start, with the Netherhoy in chace, this was , on the night of the 27th ult. Lobo, the Ad miral, with all his blockading squadron, was close by, but did not interfere. We hear the people of Buenos Ayres are tired of the war,' which bears hard upon their commerce, and that some pacific overtures are likely to be made, but this is mere report—they must have the contested province." • " The Chambers here are now sitting, and I cannot describe to you how much I admire their proceedings, which I witness almost every day. I. had no idea that the Brazils could have mustered half the intellect and good information which bursts out in their discussions. Lord Ponsonby has been for sometime in commu nication as to the war, but I fear much it will end in smoke, the Emperor appearing determined to hold Monte Video coute coute. In the meantime, our commerce is suspended, except by smuggling, and it is the English who pay the piper." We received this morning the Nurembut g Cor respondent of the 14th instant, but its contents are merely of a speculative nature, having no certain foundation in fact : BERLIN, AUG. 8. For some weeks past we have observed a very frequent exchange of couriers between St. Pete r sburgh and. Lon don. If we may give credit to a report which is in gene ral circulation here, the dispatches brought by - these courier's Chiefly relate to the affairs of Turkey, with re spect to which the two Calms are supposed to be perfectly agreed, and to intend to publish, soon after the coronation at Moscow, a manifesto, declaratory of their intentions. It can, however, hardly be doubted, that this report, in its present shape at least, is founded on a misunderstanding, and that, if any declaration of the kind alluded to'should be published, it will be issued in the name of the Great Powers of Europe; Count Capo d'lstria, Russian Secretary of . State, is expected here shortly. Many of our politicians have founded on this re ' port, which is itself not certain, an inference that that ce lebrated statesman has been recalled to St.. Petersburgh by his Sovereign, and may, perhaps, resume the post he formerly held. It is now positively a ffi rmed, in many quarters, that his Majesty, our King, will have au inter view with the Emperor and Empress of Russia soon after the coronation at Warsaw ; nay, Posen is now mentioned as the place-where the interview•will take place. We also received Frankfort papers to the 15th inst., but they are wholly uninteresting. It appears that'the celebrated astronomer PI A zzi, discoverer of the planet Ceres, died. at NapleS on the 22d July, in the 80th year of his age. Private letters from St'. Peterhburgh to the sth inst. state, that scarcely a drop of rain had fallen for two months (excepting two thunder showers), so that the earth is parched, and every thing burnt up. Forests are burning in all directions, arid the smoke is occa sionally so thick as to eclipse the sun. ' We are not much inclined to enter into South American politics, nor to discuss the conduct of any of the New Republics in the measures they have re sorted to for raising Loans, or for paying the interest of them ; but the manifest injustice done to Coloth bia, by She remarks of a Morning Paper, induces us to notice , the subject. The Decree issued by the Colombian Government of the 19th May, requires that all persons who are owners in their own right, or administrators on behalf of others, of property to the value of two hundred dol lars and upwards—or who derive from any office, trade, or profession, a yearly income of one hundred dollars or upwards, shall advance to the State, sums varying from one dollar to a thousand dollars, and proportioned according to the amount of their property or income respectively : and the sum, which any man thus advances, is to be repaid to him, by giving him credit for one-fourth part of it in levying the direct taxes due from him in each of the next four half-years. It - must be admitted, of course, that this proceeding is a very strong measure—that it is, in fact, a forced loan ; but why is it 'resorted to ? Is it not, for the just purpose of fulfilling the sacred engagements of the State in another country, and for the payment of those who are suffering from having advanced large . sums of money, by which alone the inhabitants of Colombia, who are now called upon to contribute to wards the repayment thereof, were enabled to,esta blish their independence, and assert the privileges which they now enjoy ? It is not just, we contend, to designate this mea sure " as an exaction as arbitrary as any that can be imagined ;" nor do we think that it ought altogether to be considered as " a proof that there is no regular. system of finance amongst those who adopt it, and , 'that the only thing to which they look is how to pro vide funds for the passing moment," An emergency which had not been contemplated b t s l ey t n e oe r r e d s ii u it is l a t r;yfaaiintnhde,4hes calls lts C o o l um o p m epe b l i a the e G c o l v i occurred : a breach o f a so l emn engagement had been ffi enl coTt e ; fitted by all who have bone fitted loans which have been made, to pay . the ir parts o f t h e sums instantly required, at the sam e t i me secur i ng to t h em t h e gra d ua l ta,ndunpabrele repayment of money so • exacted, In an infant state, measures of this nature are occasionally un avoidable ; and it appears to us, that the honour able motive which has influenced the Government in requiring, and the Citizens of Colombia, in submittitig to this measure, ought to have saved t,lOl from the imputations which have been tItyCVNII upon them, as to folly and injustice i 0 the mode of raising the required sum, and from the insinuations that the money so ecliected has not much chance of being remitted to' England. We should view with telk4er.nesa the. means adopted under such circnntstancaa as C9 lo 4 l hia has been placed in, for the fulfilment . of her engagements, and ap ', plauding the honorable motive which influences her Government in the means to which it has resorted for raising the money necessary for this object, we ought not to doubt its faithful application to its avowed lurpose. ly the Lang, Captain LAIuK, fpm Van Diernan's Land, arrived on the 19th of the Edystone, Hobart Town Papers have been received at the. North and South Americ an Coffee Room, to the 7th April, inclq. sive ; the .4ing having left the latter port 9 she 11th April. The contents of these p s aposs.l44jsh continua tion of the unhappy d4-agreements in that Colony be- i tween the- Attorney-General and the Governor, which seem to be carried on with great acrimony, and will only be adjusted by a refertgice to the authorities here. Private bills were at 22 per cent. premium; tenders of wheat have been made and accepted by Govern ment to the extent of 10,000 bushels, at from 6s. to 7s. per bushel. We are gratified by learning of the total extinction of the bosh-rangers. Cody and Dunne were yet at large. They had been seen in the neighbourhood of the' Cross Marsh, and had, we un derstand, very narrowly escaped capture. It is very extraordinary that the public are, indebted to two men, both prisoners, for the recent capture of Biary, and also for the destruction of Murphy, Williams, and Bird, and the capture of Tilley. Murphy and Williams were shot by these men, after a powerful resistance they also threw Brady and the rest into the hands of the captors ; and finally shot Bird, and secured Tilley. Important discoveries had• been made, and there is little doubt but arrangements will be taken to prevent the possibility of similar outrages again occurring. The Jane Shore had put into -George Town on her way to Sidney, laden with flour and salted meat, procured 'at Batavia, and a similar cargo was on the passage ; the depression of the times was severely felt at Launceston ; buildings which were so rapidly increasing, are standing still,. and mercantile pursuits are rapidly declining. .Upwards of 200 prisoners were in Hobart Town goal, which was consequently in a very crowded state. The editor of the Colonial Times (Mr. Bent) had been brought up for judgment, and sentenced to a heavy fine and imprisonment, in conse quence of an ex-officio • prosecution. The Mangles had been chartered at Sydney, and was expected to sail in May. The John Dunn had arrived from Sydney, for Hobart Town, and would sail in about 18 days after the Sun, for England. The arrange ments for the new Bank at Sydney were nearly completed. Price of wheat at the latter port :—Wheat' 6s. led., Maize 4s. 6d. and Barley 4s. 6d.. per bushel. Gen. DARLING, who is much liked, had issued a notice pro hibiting ell persons holding situations from being concern ed directly or indirectly in any sort of traffic whatever. — Five ofthe New South Wales Bush Rangers had been captured, tried, found guilty, and executed.. Gen. DAR.. LING compels the Colonial Treasurer, the Naval Of ficer, and all the other public accountants, to send in balance sheets every week, and to certify that the ba lance is in hand. The Almorah is sent to be con demned at Calcutta ; the ship and cargo brought.,:eerY high prices. Sugar and tobacco are now grown . extensively in New South Wales. Captain KELL It of the Cape packet, had been put on his trial for shot" ing at Valentine Hobby, a seaman of that vessel. The Court had adjourned until the .following . Saturder" the Jury wishing to see the ship, and new that e t of the vessel where the circumstance occurred. . t CO* vernment ordinance had , been issued that on the Ist of April all contracts and payments were to be. made in, sterling money. It . was understood that the seat Government would not be removed fttm Hobart Town to New Norfolk, until advices had been received from England on that subject. A gentleman named Young, a Settler on the Macquarrie, had been plundered Of 1200 ounces of plate. A dreadful murder had been committed on Mr. C. Robertson by s Captain Wil son, recently arrived from India, who resided with the above Scotch gentleman. Mr. R. was found seated on the sofa weltering in his blood, having been shot by Captain W., who had discharged another gun at Min" melt, which took effect. - The Coroner gave a verdict► that the act was done by Capt. W. in a state of br sanity. The Colonial Times of the 7th April announce' that most important discoveries have been brought to light, and that in the next number the Editor of than Journal will be enabled to give the public particular& of a transaction of a most extraordinary nature.. The accounts from Ireland continue t o present us with a most lamentable picture of the distress whic h already exists, and of the fearful appr e h e nsions which are entertained for the future. The drought which has to long existed 'he• with total destruction the late crop of potatoes. oats have nearly failed ; the barley produces *W u ' one-third only of an average crop ; and the tila hg* almost universally suffered in a serious degree. These facts, as they regard the South 00 0° r have been re-stated in a letter which Mr. PA ° hss Passage, has addressed to Mr. PEEL, by whom been put IA communication with Mr. GouLautni 012 the subject. Mr. PARKER says— , ,„A " A drought of general extent, and of unperal' e , - g rest tinuance, has desolated our once green fields, end L "'".t v iisl to the parched land that arid hue, which is of poll- - threaten occurrence in warmer latitudes. 1. htiPi " The wheat crop h as f ortunately. resiste d t h e bit p ot effects of drought ; but th e w h eat o f I re l an d wou lu bos feed one-third of the i n h a bi tants . The early puto,Pl. pfor most lamentably fail e d, b e i ng not one-tent h O f h toaf duce of last year. The late potatoes, which form aro,' ei g htest b u the of life of the Irish poor, do not afford the pect of relief, es the seed in general, if not burnt "p / out excessive heat, has been inactive in the grow' - of moisture. wl" 1- 5 " The oat unfortunately affords no substitute , - . fl o o red all other plants, h as su ff ere d most. It may be_ .s. C° l k r ip totally destroyed, except on l an d s open to po tion, or within the influence of the mountain de:d of $ 44 The barley may be considered about on e i th kieti* general average, b ut i t i s ent i rely burnt up 0° hig h affording no food to either man gr 'beast. Whit W it " The last crop I s h a ll re f er to i s t h e flax. n s e gr article of Irish i n d ustry h as participated in thil'Au-of,our neral ruin, and w hi c h awfully affects the interest oson poor. On the whole, such a dreadfully alarming on has not occurred within the me of the oldest Ireland." We are not alarmists-...but we should wih" -1.1 : 1 / c° , 11 t e t r e lili e the i truth if we did not candidyst;;OUr belie f. dui' the situation of the people of most seiimAß apprehensions Must be entertained for , autumn and winter. Deprivedof al i°ll - usual , us , the effects of the season, anda ll other articles °' s 1 e i oi tenance enhanced, as they 11 re ° will h e , hy the failu , s staple crops, we cannot contemplate - an y other il° i i state of the bordering on famine, which must pre bl i o, among o . ng dense population of many parts of It h i, is ou r duty, 'stress wh et; therefore, as Journalists, to state ~,r conviction, ,iti, t 1... —wever painful it is to our feelings, our , viewhe of producing any unnecessar y a las thaw of distress and charity, tend to mitigate solelywhie tor the purpose of exciting those syniptene, Ireland during the elibt; may, by anticipated arrangements of ver i t y volen ' the , ezic e upon n 0,,, 0 _ y Ireland. We have, it is . we nt, / 4 Consolation of knowing that the G°v e e rn , iii pon • bei ng in possession of the most accurate inu .n. „ l- ii n gc . it bursts with redoubled "'true, of the State of the Country, and actuated by 0 7 .t r ir of . the most anxious solicitude for the poP le ° sig measure Siater Kiligdoin w WtMk e every whi ch liul I i NDS AT . ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan, 1824 Peruvian Bonds 25% —. 6 Portuguese Bonds Prussian, 5 per cent Ditto, New 92 Russian, New, 5 per cent. 8314 Spanish, 1821 9% 1823 — French Rentes, 5 p. c —f. —c. Exchange —t, —c. —3 percent. Exchange —t. —c. AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. .£8.5 15 15 28 32N 3 *i 4}7 c. iy 2 aty lt) TOCKS, AUG,. 19. 4 14%, St. Patrick Insurance 6% die. Royal Irish Ditto — National Ditto — Patriotic Ditto e — Hibernian Bank 5% die. Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine — Imperial Mine — Mining Co. of Ireland I% dim. New Brighton — MAILS. Arrived. Due. l France O Flanders 0 O Jamaica 0 O Leeward Islands O Malta w 0 O America. 0 O Brazil 0 O Buenos Ayres 0